Your Kingdom Come The Lords Prayer part 7

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Your Kingdom Come The Lords Prayer part 7
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The Lords Prayer(Matt 6 9-13 Luke 11 2-4)

• Relationship who we really are
• Rationale where the power lies
• Resources to meet our needs
• Reconciliation restoring hurts
• Reliability trusting God in lifes battles
• Reign its God who controls our destiny

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Matthew 6 10 14 (TNIV)

• Our Father in heaven, hallowed is Your name.
  Your Kingdom come, Your will be done
• For Yours is the Kingdom, the power and the
  glory

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The Kingdom what is it?

• Present tenseLet be coming the kingdom of you
• The place where the King lives and where His rule
  operates
• Sophia Electress of Brunswick-Lüneburg

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Seeking first the Kingdom

• Matthew 6 33 (TNIV)
• Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness
• To desire above all to enter into, submit to,
  and participate in spreading the news of the
  saving reign of God to pursue righteousness of
  life in full submission to the will of God

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Seeking first the Kingdom

• Romans 14 17-18 (TNIV)
• For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of
  eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace
  and joy in the Holy Spirit, because anyone who
  serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and
  receives human approval

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Seeking first the Kingdom

• An eternal perspective
• Righteousness, peace and joy
• Here for a purpose

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Points to Ponder

• How does the way we live our lives reflect our
  belief in Gods Kingdom?
• Whats the evidence?
• Why does our outward behaviour matter for those
  who dont believe yet?
• How are we aligning ourselves with Gods Kingdom
  on a day-by-day basis?

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The Power of the Kingdom

• 1Corinthians 4 20 (TNIV)
• For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk
  but of power
• An empowered life (The Message)
• If our mouths dont line up with our actions then
  its probably a waste of breath
• If our lives dont match up with our mouths then
  its probably a waste of energy

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The Power of the Kingdom

• Ephesians 4 29 (TNIV)
• Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your
  mouths, but only what is helpful for building
  others up according to their needs, that it may
  benefit those who listen
• Galatians 5 6b  (TNIV)
• The only thing that counts is faith expressing
  itself through love

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The Power of the Kingdom

• James 5 16 (TNIV)
• Confess your sins to each other and pray for
  each other so that you may be healed. The prayer
  of a righteous person is powerful and effective

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Points to Ponder

• How do we get Gods power in our lives?
• When was the last time I demonstrated real faith
  in action?
• What strengthens my faith in God?
• Have I really settled the issue of forgiveness
  and of being forgiven?
• Its a two-way process forgiving and being
  forgiven
• Confess to and pray for each other

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Gods Glory

• Romans 610-11 (NLT)
• Jesus died to defeat sin, and now he lives for
  the glory of God. So you should consider
  yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the
  glory of God through Christ Jesus

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Gods Glory

• Romans 15 7(NLT)
• Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has
  accepted you so that God will be given glory

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Gods Glory

• 1Peter 4 10-11 (NLT)
• God has given each of you a gift from his great
  variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to
  serve one another . . . with all the strength and
  energy that God supplies. Then everything you do
  will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All
  glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

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Gods Glory

• 2Corinthians 4 15 (NLT)
• As God's grace brings more and more people to
  Christ God will receive more and more glory!

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Promise to Claim

• Ephesians 3 20-21(TNIV)
• Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more
  than all we ask or imagine, according to His
  power that is at work within us, to Him be glory
  in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all
  generations, for ever and ever! Amen

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